It once was one of my very favorite things in the world, but about 10 years ago my copy of Tumours, the song-for-song cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours by the mighty Schlong , went missing. Then, a few weeks ago, I find it sitting there on a bookshelf like it had never left. My turntable […]
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Chilling New Theory
Over at Rambling Jack’s Laboratory, McKinleyville Press editor/publisher Jack Durham clinically lays out the evidence in the case of the recent Klamath Ox Kill. What you see may disturb you. Better not let the kids click through.
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Morning Papers
Two Peoples, One Place, the new Humboldt County history by Ray Raphael and Freeman House, gets a great review in the San Francisco Chronicle. (The NCJ had the honor of launching the book last month.) Balloon Track East? Local kazillionaire Rob Arkley’s company, Security National, is developing a 130-acre industrial park in Plympton, Mass., according […]
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RIP Hobart (details on memorial “Celebration of Life”)
Hobart Brown, Glorious Founder of the Kinetic Sculpture race , died of pneumonia last night at Redwood Memorial Hospital. He was 73. UPDATE: Here’s a beautifully written, three-page press release from Kinetic Universe , the organization that put on the race last year. Hobart Brown was born in Hess, Oklahoma to a fifteen-year-old mother who […]
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Redwood Art Association Awards Indifference
Redwood Art Association Awards its Artist Members $2640 in Prizes at its Fall Exhibition EUREKA – The Best of Show Award ($500) was given to ” Walls of Indifference,” a three-dimensional ceramic by Trinidad artist Daniel Frachon. “The Best of Show was immediately apparent as a great example of a spirit house. It is so […]
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Another Media Alert
This one’s not exactly newsy. More or less a proud parents, local girl in Hollywood thing. A note from the Loncar family of Arcata: Hey Everyone, Mandy [ Amanda Loncar ] is on Grey’s Anatomy Thurs, ABC at 9pm (the blonde fighting it out over a wedding gown!) … Also in Lions from Lambs (Robert […]